How a CPU works: Bare metal C on my RISC-V toy CPUI always wanted to understand how a CPU works, how it transitions from one instruction to the next and makes a computer work. So after reading Ken Shirrif’s blog about a bug fix in the 8086 processor I thought: Well, let’s try to write one in a hardware description language. This post is a write up of my learning experiment. I’ll walk through my steps of creating an emulator, compiling and linking
